THE ETHICS OF HORSE-KEEPING. 13 



his head. Harsh treatment, though it stop short of 

 inflicting physical pain, keeps a nervous horse in 

 a state of misery. "An hostler's angry tone will 

 send a quiver of fear — I have seen it scores of 

 times — down a whole barnful of stalls." 1 On the 

 other hand, it is perfectly true, as a besotted but 

 intelligent stable-keeper once observed to me, "A 

 kind word for a hoss is as good sometimes as a feed 

 of oats." A single blow may be enough to spoil 

 a racer. Daniel Lambert, founder of the Lambert 

 branch of the Morgan family, was thought as a three- 

 year-old to be the fastest trotting stallion of his 

 day. He was a very handsome, stylish, intelligent 

 horse, and also extremely sensitive. His driver, Dan 

 Mace, though one of the best reinsmen that the track 

 has produced, once made the mistake, either through 

 ill temper or bad judgment, of giving Daniel Lam- 

 bert a severe cut with the whip, and that single 

 blow put an end to his usefulness as a trotter. He 

 became wild and ungovernable in harness, and re- 

 mained so for the rest of his life. 



One of the best, most docile, most intelligent ani- 

 mals that I have known was a powerful brown 

 horse belonging to a veterinary surgeon. When the 

 doctor was making professional visits in the city 

 where he lived, he would often walk from one stable 

 to another, and beckon or call to the horse to follow 

 him. This the latter would always do, waiting pa- 

 tiently meanwhile. But if any strange man or boy 

 mounted the gig and attempted to drive him off, he 

 could not be made to budge an inch. This animal 



1 I quote this just remark from a published sermon upon dumb 

 animals, delivered by the Rev. G. L. Walker of Hartford. Conn. 



